NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 1025

SENATE BILL 150

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO COMPLETE THE AUDITORIUM AND LIBRARY AT THE FOLK ART CENTER OF THE SOUTHERN HIGHLAND HANDICRAFT GUILD.

Whereas, the Folk Art Center of the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild is a place to preserve, celebrate, develop, and market the crafts and folk arts of the mountain region; and

Whereas, the Folk Art Center opened to the public on April 1, 1980, after having received capital funding from the federal government, private business and industry, individuals, foundations, and Buncombe County; and

Whereas, the Folk Art Center attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to see the crafts of the mountain region; and

Whereas, an auditorium and library will enable daily educational programs to be conducted and be a primary resource for the study of the crafts of the Southern Highlands; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources for fiscal year 1981-82 the sum of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) to complete the auditorium and library at the Folk Art Center of the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild in Buncombe County.

Sec. 2. Funds under Section 1 of this act shall be available only on a dollar-for-dollar basis to match nonstate funds.

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of October, 1981.